Value & Color: See Light Before Color
Your color work isn’t a color problem. It’s a value problem. Learn to see and control light and dark first, so you can stop chasing the perfect color and make more convincing paintings.
Your color work isn’t a color problem. It’s a value problem.
Learn to control light and dark first, then use two simple approaches to color. No color matching here.
What you’ll practice
- Building and using a value scale
- Finding where your colors sit on that scale
- Tinting and shading without killing your color
- The split primary palette
- Tonal vs. chromatic painting
- Painting light on form in any medium
How it works: 17 lessons, 1 hr 45 min, 3 assignments. Works with any paint.
Best taken after: Drawing Fundamentals, The System, and Design & Composition.
